Baboon politics say a lot about human politics: It's tough to be on top, and the key to staying there is to know when to stress over the competition. Professor of Neuroscience at Stanford ...

show that life at the top of the social hierarchy is not always peaceful. So what exactly is it, then, that accounts for this extra stress for dominant baboons? In the journal Proceedings of the ...

Instead, it involved a Chacma baboon throwing a gang of banded mongooses ... “The mongooses are piled on top of one another, giving the appearance of one writhing creature, in a behaviour ...

But what if we take that concept and bring it to the animal kingdom, specifically to primates? A male and female Kinda baboon share a private moment on a tree branch in Kasanka National Park, Zambia.

In 1971, Stuart Altmann and Jeanne Altmann began full-time continuous monitoring of the Amboseli baboon population (see History). Stuart was the senior scientist for the first decade. He played a ...